WEST CHESTER — Chester County District Attorney Thomas P. Hogan is expected to announce that an arrest has been made in the murder investigation of 17-year-old Kevin Allen Wednesday in a 10:30 a.m. press conference.

There will be a presentation that will include photographs and weapons, according to a press release from the D.A.

Allen was found dead at his father’s burning apartment at the Hanover Gardens Apartments in in the 200 block of East Schuylkill Road in North Coventry on Tuesday, Feb. 12. A neighbor had called 911 about the fire.

Allen was a junior at Norristown Area High School.

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An autopsy was performed but a cause of death was not released.

Hogan previously said investigators do not believe Allen’s death was a random act.